called inventions. Writers can invent characters, and then invent a story about them. Over time, humans have invented objects which make life easier for...

Invented Christmas'". Deadline Hollywood. Penske Business Media. Retrieved 10 November 2016. Dingle, Jon (23 September 2017). "The Man Who Invented Christmas...

Invented traditions are those traditions of recent origin which may claim to be old but are usually recently invented (made up). For example: There are...

We Invented the Remix is a remix album by P. Diddy with the Bad Boy Family, released on May 14, 2002. It features remixes of hit singles by artists from...

motorcycle was invented in Springfield in 1901. The modern fire engine was invented there in 1905. The commercial radio station was invented there in 1920...

inventors make small changes to old inventions. For example, people have invented new ways to make clocks over history. Early clocks were sundials, later...

type of comedy genre. Sitcoms were first on radio, before television was invented, but are now on television and are a large part of the programs shown....

the Soviet Union invented several systems, and the United Nations and the International Organization for Standardization invented two of the others....

which work slightly differently. In 1896, the first dry cell battery was invented. Unlike previous batteries, it used a paste electrolyte instead of a liquid...

Inventing the Abbotts is a 1997 American romantic drama movie directed by Pat O'Connor and was based on the short story of the same name by Sue Miller...

first machines for making paper from wood pulp were invented. New kinds of inks were also invented for various purposes, and machines were driven by steam...

Bessemer invented the Bessemer converter steelmaking furnace. Henry moved to Sheffield to make steel. Later, in 1912, Harry Brearley invented stainless...

Dictionary, the accordion was first invented in Germany by Friedrich Buschmann in 1822. Although many people believe it was invented by Cyrill first. Since then...

second wife. He invented the repeating shotgun and made shotguns like the Winchester Model 1887, Model 1897, and Browning Auto-5. He invented pistols like...

Soul food is a group of ethnic foods traditionally made and invented by African Americans, coming from the Southern United States. "soul food". Cuisine...

information technology, such as the use of punched cards for data, has been invented to handle it. The word comes from the Roman Republic when it meant a list...

Or other places where there are few landmarks. The first compass was invented by ancient Chinese in the Han Dynasty. It was a large spoon-like magnetic...

religious movement active in the British colonies of North America Octant invented (probably around 1730) independently by John Hadley in Great Britain and...

for shooting other people. People continued to invent new weapons. In 1884 the machine gun was invented, which could shoot many bullets very fast. Soldiers...

taken and paths could be followed. The compass was first invented in China. It was later invented in France in 12th century. Accurate clocks. With a clock...

December 25 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan. The telephone is invented by Alexander Graham Bell. The United States celebrated its 100th birthday...

telephone (1876) by Alexander Graham Bell. The light bulb was invented. The phonograph is invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison. Ludwig Boltzmann's statistical...

wine-makers used. Many people say Gutenberg invented printing with moveable type, but it was already invented in China before that: see printing. Before...

It is a metallic element and part of the actinide series. Berkelium was invented by scientists and does not exist in nature. Berkelium was first made by...

for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics. While working at British Thomson-Houston that he invented holography...

earlier than commonly believed. The system for working out the years was invented by Dionysius Exiguus in around AD 525. He fixed the point Anno Domini,...

he invented there the carbon microphone, which made the sound for Alexander Graham Bell's new telephone invention louder. In 1877, Edison invented the...

vacuums as well. John Ambrose Fleming invented the first vacuum tube, the diode, in 1904. Lee De Forest invented the "audion" in 1906 (which was improved...

Jazz is a type of music which was invented in the United States. Jazz music combines African-American music with European music. Jazz first became popular...

A carriage is a type of vehicle that was used before cars were invented. It is a fancy type of cart or wagon, usually with four wheels and suspension....

record sound. Either the movie was being made before sound cameras were invented, or the movie makers could not afford the expensive new equipment. Although...

to 746 watts. The idea of horsepower was originated by James Watt, who invented the steam engine. Because people used horses to pull carts, it was an amount...

records because they were faster and could hold more information. The CD was invented by both Philips and Sony at the same time. Sony and Philips did work together...

removing connections. Invented in 1956, it has been replaced by EPROMs. EPROM: This kind can be erased with UV light. Invented in 1972, it became rare...

Christian Bach. The upright piano was invented in 1800 by John Isaac Hawkings. Seven years later T. Southwell invented “over-stringing”. This means that the...

war. All large boats became known as "ships", so when steam power was invented people talked about "steam ships" to distinguish them from "sailing ships"...

teeth, known as gears. Most experts believe that the ancient Mesopotamians invented the wheel about 4000 BC. People in Asia also discovered it on their own...

event in athletics, where a heavy disc is thrown for distance. It was invented in 708 BC in Ancient Greece. The goal is to throw the discus farther than...

January 2017) was a British-American geneticist and Nobel laureate, He invented gel electrophoresis in 1955, which is now one of the basic techniques of...

written or printed and delivered by hand or teleprinter. Claude Chappe invented and constructed the first optical telegraph in 1791. The Gaiss-Wenber telegraph...

ancient Mesopotamia used the cuneiform writing system, which had been invented by the Sumerians. The Assyrians are an ethnic group in what are now Iraq...

Ptah was the local god of Memphis, one of the ancient capitals of Egypt. He is the parson of craftsmen, since it is believed that he invented the arts....

extinct. Hunting once made the dodo, a bird, become extinct. Before they invented herding people got meat by hunting. Boar hunting and fox hunting became...

made from petroleum and from various other sources. It is named after Rudolf Diesel who in 1892 invented the diesel engine. Biodiesel United States EPA...

connecting to a computer network using radio waves instead of wires. It was invented to connect computers that are near each other, and nowadays is much used...

There he established the world's first major school of chemistry. He invented the chemical laboratory, and used it for teaching. He founded and edited...

Ahmed Zewail (1946-2016) was an Egyptian chemist. He invented femtochemistry and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1999. Chemical reactions were once...

was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. December – The pendulum clock is invented by Christian Huygens....

a German chemist. He made important improvements on an earlier burner invented by Michael Faraday. The Bunsen burner can be adjusted to make a flame that...

than transport by road. In the industrial revolution, the railway was invented. A railway is a special type of road, using railway tracks. Roads are now...

part of Bellcomm, where he invented the first continuously operating ruby laser with Don Nelson in 1962. He also helped invent a semiconductor injection...

tabulated by punched card machines for the first time. Herman Hollerith invented this way of tabulating data. This technology made the time to tabulate...

took many minutes to register a temperature. Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit invented a quicker mercury thermometer in 1714, and the Fahrenheit temperature scale...

happened in 1880, when Alexander Graham Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter invented photophone, a telephone that made conversations wirelessly using light...

ruled that he invented the first working telephone, although Alexander Graham Bell was first to patent it. "Who is credited with inventing the telephone...

14, 1765 – February 25, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who invented the steamboat. Fulton county (county in the state of Georgia) was named...

flask with a base in the shape of a cone and a short neck. It was first invented in 1861 by a German chemist named Richard Erlenmeyer. Erlenmeyer Flasks...

microscope. One problem was that, like in World War I, people had just invented new weapons, like the Minié ball. Guns with rifled barrels did not miss...

ships were usually powered by oars. During the Middle Ages, the cannon was invented. It could be shot at other ships from a great distance. Warships around...

example, "Chef" required keeping food in the air). The Game & Watch was invented before the Game Boy. Until 1985 with the Nintendo Entertainment System...

reeds growing in the delta of the Nile. The ancient Egyptians invented them, and also invented black ink, using soot and gum arabic. Their pens had split...

their surfboard to catch a wave and ride in towards the shore. Surfing was invented by the Polynesians at least 4000 years ago. Surfing made its Olympic debut...

device for playing recorded music from the 1870s through the 1980s. It was invented by Thomas Edison, after other inventors had studied the idea. Early phonographs...

usually less famous than past playwrights. Since television and movies were invented, theater has become less popular. Because it is less popular, not as many...

furlong was the length. Edmund Gunter, a clergyman and mathematician, invented a measuring device called a chain. The chain was 66 ft (20 m) long. It...

An electrolyte is a solution that has ions in it. Electrochemistry was "invented" at the same time as the voltaic pile; the first kind of electric battery...

the world headquarters of Nestlé, founded in 1867. Milk chocolate was invented in Vevey by Daniel Peter in 1857. Official website (in French) Wikimedia...

Ottoman Empire starts to become weak. The Korean alphabet, the Hangul, is invented. King Ivan III of Russia King Edward IV of England Margaret Beaufort, mother...

freestyle swimming, show jumping, and a 3 km cross-country run. It was invented by Pierre de Coubertin. The event was first held at the 1912 Olympic Games...

physicist and Nobel laureate. He discovered the electron and isotopes, and invented the mass spectrometer. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906 for his...

University. He is one of several people who can claim to have invented television. He invented the picture tube and built the first all-electric TV set. He...

Descroizilles developed the first burette on 1791. Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac invented a more complete burette later. Louis Rosenfeld. Four Centuries of Clinical...

original company, which was founded in 1886, is known for several things: It invented saccharin in 1899. Saccharin is an artificial sweetener, a substitute for...

It may move its jaw to rotate nuts or bolts of different sizes. It was invented by Edwin Beard Budding (1795–1846), who also invented the lawnmower....

cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell." "Definition of CRUEL". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2019-03-17...

it into sound signals. Alexander Graham Bell invented the first audible loudspeaker in 1876. Bell invented the loudspeaker because he needed a device that...

is no longer in general use. A man called Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre invented the daguerreotype process in France in 1839. The new type of photography...

Continental (Germany). The company is named after Charles Goodyear, who invented vulcanized rubber, which he also used for tires. Goodyear Tire & Rubber...

records for Ike and Tina Turner, and the Beatles' album Let It Be. Spector invented the idea of a "wall of sound", which was a way of producing so that every...

buildings earthquake-proof. Concrete is as old as 5600 BC. It was not invented by Romans, but much used by them. Some kinds of concrete are waterproof...

Medicine with Camillo Golgi January 11 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss scientist, invented LSD (d. 2008) January 14 - William Bendix, American actor (d. 1964) March...

1232 is a leap year which started on a Thursday of the Julian Calendar. In Korea, the printing press is invented....

Friesland. Pir Sultan Abdal, Turkish poet. Peter Henlein, German inventor who may have first invented the watch. Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer...

said that Maia was a nymph. Hermes was very clever and on his first day invented the lyre, by using the shell of a tortoise. He carries a golden sword....

color which was much used for dyeing clothes in the 19th century. It was invented in 1856 by William Henry Perkin. Apparently, it gave a brilliant fuchsia...

Austro-Hungarian Empire It was played from 1897 to 1911. It started in 1897 and was invented by John Gramlick. He was one of the founders of Vienna Cricket and Football-Club...

magnetic tape used to record moving images and (usually) sound. Videotape was invented in the 1950s for recording television shows for later broadcasting. In...

Watercolours were first created in China, appearing shortly after paper was invented. Watercolours soon became popular in Japan as well. Pigment is mixed first...

Dunlop re-invented a type of tire which was filled with air. This made safety bicycles more comfortable. Soon, the freewheel was invented. This was a...

was invented by the English chemist Alfred Bird (1811–1878) in 1843. Bird was quickly followed by Henry Jones (1812 – 12 July 1891), who invented self-raising...

is an anagram of the word "expands". Lycra was invented in 1959 in the United States. It was invented by Joseph Shivers, a chemist working for DuPont...

machine that cooks food using microwaves, a type of radio wave. The idea was invented when a scientist who was experimenting with radio waves saw his chocolate...

See the main page: Neolithic Revolution In the Neolithic period, people invented farming and started caring for animals, such as cows, sheep and pigs. Scientists...

century with Daguerreotype. Later wet plate and dry plate methods were invented. Most photography in the 20th century was on photographic film and most...

Island, publishes A Key Into the Language of America Evangelista Torricelli invented the Barometer. January 4 – Sir Isaac Newton, English scientist (d. 1727)...

Haber was a good man or a bad man. He invented weapons and poisons that killed many people, but he also invented fertilizers that allowed farms to grow...

sidekick, even though the book was written long before the word sidekick was invented. Annabeth Chase is Percy Jackson’s sidekick. This short article can be...

method which he had invented. He also wrote about shapes (Geometry), light (optics), and the weather (Meteorology). He then invented a way of describing...

Street dance is term applied to dances that were invented by the general public in the 1970’s and later in (largely African-related) urban cultures. The...

musical instrument made of pipes invented by an American radio comedian, Bob Burns (1896—1956). The bazooka was invented by rocket scientist, Robert H....

person to use a telescope for astronomy, but he did not invent them. The first telescope was invented in the Netherlands in 1608. Some telescopes, not mainly...

A relay is an electromagnetically operated switch. It was invented in the 19th century to make electric telegraph signals go farther. Nowadays relays control...

this way, a company can outlive the people who started it. This idea was invented in medieval times, but really flowered in the 19th century. It has spread...

possibilities. Writing had to be invented: it sometimes comes as a shock to realise this. Much later, printing was invented. That took writing out of churches...

spin (rotation). The glide was invented in the US in the year 1876. The spin was also developed in the US. It was invented by Parry O'Brian and made famous...

also can be used for watching television programs. The television was invented in the 1920s but the equipment was expensive and the pictures were poor...

founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film. This made photography popular and led to other men inventing film stock. His Kodak company still...

mathematics. He invented calculus independently of Newton, and his notation for derivatives is the one in general use since then. He also invented the binary...

missionaries in Eastern Europe. When they preached to the Slavic peoples, they invented the Glagolitic alphabet, an early form of Cyrillic. During the 18th century...

were laid on microscope slides and stained with silver. The stain was invented by Golgi, who shared the Nobel Prize with him. Ramón y Cajal's investigations...

Humphry Davy invented the electric arclight in the early 1800s. Thomas Alva Edison, Joseph Swann, and several others in the 1880s invented the more efficient...

submarines, surface ships, helicopters, aircraft, land etc. Robert Whitehead invented the torpedo in 1866. Swedish Bofors 'Torpedo 2000' promo video Modern Torpedoes...

or aluminium) plate with a completely smooth surface. Lithography was invented in 1796 by Bavarian author Alois Senefelder as a low-cost method of publishing...

small celluloid balls. You need also a net and a table. Table tennis was invented in England in 1880. The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), a...

According to its own website, NCBI's goal is to make it easier for people to invent new technology that can be used to study molecules and genes. It also sets...

Dutch doctor. He won the 1924 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for inventing the electrocardiogram. "Biography of Willem Einthoven". The Nobel Foundation...

century the Montgolifer brothers invented balloons made for travel, and at the beginning of the 20th the Wright brothers invented airplanes. Air travel has since...

reduce their value. The most successful of the hand-powered dishwashers was invented in 1886 by Josephine Cochrane together with mechanic George Butters in...

q, u, w and x. No accents or other diacritical marks are used. It was invented by David Jones as a replacement for Sorabe (a type of Arabic script). Most...

States (d. 1836) March 3 – William Godwin, English journalist (d. 1836) May – John Macadam, Scottish engineer, invented Tarmac for the roads (d. 1836)...

The contact process used to make industrial strength sulfuric acid was invented in the 19th century, and continues to be used today. It is a dense (thick)...

messages to far away places, a new branch called electrical engineering was invented. When radio became important, many engineers worked at it, and their branch...

netless basket that is on a 3.5 m (11.5 feet) high pole. The sport was invented by Dutch school teacher Nico Broekhuysen in 1902. In the Netherlands, there...

(triels) elements are to the right. The term "transition element" was invented for them in 1921. The atomic numbers of these metals are from 21-30, 39-48...

appeared after the incarnation, above the sea of Thiruchendur. Croquet invented in Ireland. Mormon religion founded in New York. Belgium founded. Ecuador...

commutes. This was uncommon until the 19th century, when the word was invented for people who used public transport daily. For many commuters, home is...

reduces friction between the train and the rail. The first monorail was invented in the 19th century. The monorail has a different wheel system than other...

Pacific Ocean, to the Arafura Sea, northeast of Australia. Its name was invented in 1832 and means "black islands". The following islands and groups of...

animals, such as whales and seals. Blubber keeps these animals warm. Inuits invented blubber lamps, and many other people also used oil from blubber in their...

players who have a physical disability to play sport. Ice sledge hockey was invented in Sweden in the 1960s at a rehabilitation center. Team is composed of...

the most widely used bullets in history originating with the 9×19 Luger, invented in Germany. Many guns fire the 9mm, including the Luger, Walther P38, the...

to pay new Revolutionary taxes. The American System of manufacturing is invented. Deaths December 14 - George Washington, 67, first President of the United...

The cathode ray tube or CRT was invented by Karl Ferdinand Braun. It was the most common type of display for many years. It was used in almost all computer...

1958) was an American physicist. he was born in South Dakota. He helped invent the nuclear bomb during World War II. Lawrence won the Nobel prize for physics...

The city of Worcester, where the sauce named after Worcestershire was invented, is within this county. The county borders Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire...

this, new ways of talking to these machines were invented, and new types of machines were invented, and eventually the computer as we know it was born...

The voltaic pile was the first ever battery. It was invented in 1800 by Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist. The picture to the right shows a voltaic...

was a camera simple enough for anyone to take pictures. Eastman Kodak re-invented photography and became an American success story. But their success would...

use the term artificial intelligence, in an article he wrote in 1955. He invented LISP to be able to do logic programming, in 1958. This makes LISP the second-oldest...

The word psychedelic is a word invented in the 20th century by joining the Greek words for "mind," ψυχή (psyche), and "manifest," δήλος (delos). A person...

observed within the periodic table. Read more ... The periodic table was invented by the Russian chemist Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev (1834–1907). In his...

governmental minister Wang Zhen (official) invents wooden movable type printing, while the earlier Bi Sheng invented ceramic movable type in the 11th century...

musicians are very good at improvisation. This means that they think up (invent) the music as they play it. Some church organists are good at improvising...

with Glenn Curtiss, filing lawsuits against each other over who really invented the airplane steering system. The Wrights believed that Curtiss' aileron...

surfaces present. "NIHF Inductee Wallace Clement Sabine Invented Architectural Acoustics". www.invent.org. Retrieved 2021-10-02. This short article about...

steam which pushes pistons to power the train. Steam locomotives were invented in the early 19th century and built until 1960 though some were built in...

originally known as the X-Y Position Indicator for a display system and was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1963 while working at Xerox PARC. However, due...

American sculptor. He lived in Philadelphia, in the United States. He invented the mobile. Mobiles are a kind of sculpture where the pieces are moved...

A national sport is a sport or game that was invented and firstly played by citizens of the same country or nation. It also means the game or sport has...

anti-aircraft warfare find their target by infrared. Before Bluetooth was invented, some computers, personal digital assistants, and cell phones used infrared...

known for his work on the therapeutic use of monoclonal antibodies. He invented techniques to both humanise (1986) and, later, to fully humanise using...

1804 – 23 June 1891) was a German physicist. He and Carl Friedrich Gauss invented the first electromagnetic telegraph. This short article about a person or...

his Japanese assistant Shiga showed) effective against trypanosomes. He invented a staining system for bacteria (before Gram staining). He did a complete...

they had to find a new form for the letter for "h". In some dialects they invented a new letter "" to stand for "h". Today, the name "Heta" is also used for...

the sides. Most went down rivers. From about 1836, marine propellers, invented by Josef Ressel, were used. Claude François Jouffroy d’Abbans built the...

the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday in the Julian calendar. James Watt invents an engine driven by steam August 15 – Napoleon...

usually worn only for publicity events. Mini-skirts were invented by Mary Quant, who also invented, or promoted, hot pants. There is disagreement as to who...

connection such as the parent nation owning that territory. The term was invented in the 1870s, when the unification of Italy left out Italians who lived...

– 26 October 1992) was an Austrian inventor. He invented the modern circuit board. He also invented fish fingers (also called fish sticks). Eisler was...

the Schrödinger equation. He also worked on the field of biophysics. He invented the concept of negentropy and helped to develop molecular biology. Schrödinger's...

tuned E, A, D, G (bass guitar and double bass tuning). The ukulele was invented in the 19th Century AD in Hawaii, where people got the idea from small...

called streetlamps, torches and headlamps. Before electric lamps were invented, gas lamps, oil lamps or candles were used. Compact fluorescent lamp Gas...

1660) was an English mathematician and Anglican clergyman. John Napier invented logarithms and Edmund Gunter created the logarithmic scales. Oughtred was...

cargo, people, and cars. The English engineer Sir Christopher Cockerell invented the modern hovercraft. Wragg, David W. (1973). A Dictionary of Aviation...

Market Insights | Seeking Alpha". "When was Nike founded? – When was it invented?". www.whenwasitinvented.org. "About: Nike Brand". SurfStitch Nike. Archived...

lower basic note. By the 1830s the modern horn with three valves had been invented. These valves change the length of the tube, so that the horn had now become...

hexagons, squares, and pentagons. They were originally invented by Euclid, who also invented geometry. They are usually found on ceilings of churches...

newspaper advice and music columns. Together with the actress Hedy Lamarr he invented and patented a frequency-hopping torpedo guidance system. This short article...

by the beginning of the 17th century, which was the time when opera was invented. In general, musical instruments have become louder as concert halls have...

Steinmeyer. "A New Kind of Magic," in Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear (New York, NY: Carroll & Graf Publishers...

named in honor of the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta (1745–1827), who invented the voltaic pile, the first chemical battery. The volt is defined as the...

Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Samuel Morse invents the electric telegraph. Michigan becomes the 26th state. Births March 18...

Tengwar is a constructed writing system, invented by J. R. R. Tolkien. The tengwar is used in his fictional world Middle-earth, for example the book The...

doctor of mathematics. In 1842 he wrote Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage, Esq., a publication that influenced Ada Lovelace. In...

well known clockmaker Thomas Tompion. Graham invented many improvements to the pendulum clock. He invented the mercury compensating pendulum. "Library...

separate resolution must be written, passed, and not vetoed. The veto was invented in ancient times for the Roman tribunes so they could protect the people...

weapon led to the success of the Han and Song empires. The Ancient Greeks invented the crossbow separately in 4th century B.C. The Romans called the weapon...

it fair for all the players. Goalball was invented in 1946 by Hanz Lorenzen and Sepp Reindle. They invented it to help veterans who became blind because...

pressure became too high, it could destroy the gun barrel. Gunpowder was invented by the Chinese. The first references of black powder, the original form...

the theta point. He also invented an original method for computing the probable size of a polymer in good solution. He invented the Flory-Huggins Solution...

the cities. It promotes Muscular Christianity.[source?] Basketball was invented in an American YMCA.[source?] The similar Young Women's Christian Association...

meteorologist, geologist, philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and writer. Zhang invented the first seismometer, a machine that measures the strength of earthquakes...

signal using their television sets and radio receivers. Guglielmo Marconi invented wireless telegraphy; in December 1901 he transmitted first radio signals...

in several programming languages. Using the at sign in programming was invented by Ray Tomlinson. It is the ligature form of the Latin word "ad", which...

remained in localized use until 1923. Roentgen discovers X-rays Marconi invents the wireless telegraph China and Japan sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki José...

of the Sengoku Period in Japan. Circa this year, polyalphabetic cipher invented by Leone Battista Alberti. Regent of Sweden Erik Axelsson Tott supports...

the story, Flash Gordon and Dale Arden blast off into space in a rocket invented by the strange Dr. Hans Zarkov. They travel to the planet Mongo, where...

City of Brisbane founded – see History of Brisbane The electromagnet was invented by William Sturgeon May 2 – Michail Leontievich Bulatov, Russian military...

Bain's design and demonstrated a telefax machine. The Pantelegraph was invented by the Italian physicist Giovanni Caselli He introduced the first commercial...

the 18th century. They date back thousands of years. Sanitary pad "Who Invented Tampons". Straight Dope. 6 June 2006. Retrieved December 24, 2013. This...

Wallace Carothers invented the first synthetic rubber called neoprene in 1931. Neoprene was the first polyester. Carothers went on to invent nylon, a true...

a kind of laboratory equipment. It is made of glass. Franz von Soxhlet invented it in 1879. It has a flask, an extraction chamber, and a condenser. It...

Tukay, Tatar poet (b. 1886) September 30 – Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel engine (b. 1858) Physiology or Medicine - Charles Robert Richet...

made from heavy, strong cotton material (fabric) called denim. They were invented in the United States by Levi Strauss in 1872. In the late 1800s, jeans...

Gunter's chain, Gunter's quadrant, and the Gunter's scale. In 1620, he invented the first successful analogue device which he developed to calculate logarithmic...

written with ideograms, each word is usually a separate symbol. Words can be invented, which are then called neologisms. For example, radar was originally an...

his research on carbon dioxide, latent heat, and specific heat. He also invented the analytic scale. This short article about a person or group of people...

gas fills the bag immediately. An American inventor, Dr. Allen S. Breed, invented and developed a key component for automotive use. Breed Corporation then...

Leif Ericson becomes the first European to visit America Gunpowder is invented in China. Dhaka, Bangladesh, is started. July 5 – Robert I, Duke of Normandy...

pulls cotton fibers away from the cotton seeds. The modern cotton gin was invented by the American inventor Eli Whitney.It is significant in American history...

because of the heating elements inside the toaster. The pop-up toaster was invented by Charles Strite in 1921. A white plastic toaster A toaster oven A commercial...

happened slowly, during the 19th century. The very word scientist was invented in 1837 by William Whewell. Before then, the term was natural philosopher...

A Herschelian telescope was invented in the 1780s by William Herschel. It is similar to a Newtonian telescope, except using only one mirror. In the 1780s...

Benedict IX sells the Papacy to Pope Gregory VI. Movable type printing is invented by Bi Sheng in China. Stephen I, Count of Blois (died 1102) June – Rainulf...

Nadsat is a slang language. It was invented by Anthony Burgess when he wrote a book called A Clockwork Orange. The book is about a teenager called Alex...

this time had seven or eight sets of strings. New kinds of lutes were invented. One new kind of lute made in the Renaissance was the theorbo. Another...

type of paper, notable for its stiffness and durability. It was first invented in China some time in the 15th century, and is used for a wide variety...

so rather than spending lots of money on expensive proper trains, they invented the Pacer. British Leyland at the time had a surplus in the production...

"ready-to-eat," which requires no additional liquid before eating. Condensed soup (invented in 1897 by Campbell Soup Company chemist John T. Dorrance) allows soup...

group can stay on top and get better jobs and more money. The term was invented in the late 18th century for a method of printing. In the mid-19th century...

Computers use codes, by changing letters into 1's and 0's. This method was invented for punched tape. Now the usual alphanumeric code is ASCII. Some people...

music and lyric poetry. She loved flute playing, and some even say she invented the double flute. Euterpe had a son named Rhesus, who was killed in the...

in the goal. They use long mallets (long sticks). Polo was originally invented in Baltistan and later spread across the world by the British. According...

calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. An English doctor invents a vaccination against smallpox. January 7-Princess Charlotte Augusta of...

for the wool. Sometimes trading eggs for wool is difficult. So people invented something they called money. This is cash or currency used for trading...

working in Gonoshasthaya Kendra, Bangladesh and invented Rapid Dot Blot Kit to detect COVID-19. His invented kit was used in different countries to detect...

September 1877 – 20 November 1945) was a British chemist and physicist who invented the mass spectrometer. He won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his...

meaning "royal"). The sport of "lawn tennis", played on grass courts, was invented in mid 19th-century England and later spread into many other countries...

these instructions many millions of times a second. Microprocessors were invented in the 1970s for use in embedded systems. The majority are still used that...

numbers were invented, just as taking the square root of a negative number used to be impossible until imaginary numbers were invented. The square root...

teacher. Some of his research focused on the new electrochemical cell, invented by Italian scientist Alessandro Volta. Using equipment he had created himself...

instrument. The earliest record of the bass clarinet is called a 'bass tube' invented in Paris in 1772 by G. Lott. It usually has a B-flat pitch. It plays one...

Since the metal cartridge was invented in 1845, most shotguns were break-open shotguns until the repeating shotgun was invented. Break-open shotguns are still...

amount of alcohol in it, usually about 35-50% alcohol by volume. It was invented in the Netherlands in the 17th century, and soon became very popular in...

stock, and techniques such as marinading, and dishes such as ragout, were invented. Carême was an expert pâtissier (pastry-maker), and this is still a mark...

Meehanite is a form of iron made through a process invented by Meehanite Worldwide. When a foundry produces Meehanite, it means that Meehanite Worldwide...

French physicist who was active at the beginning of the 20th century. He invented sonar and worked with Albert Einstein. This short article about a person or...

Another society known for their love of public bathing were the Romans. They invented the Thermae, which were grand in size, while Balineaes were smaller in...

for the celesta. 'Celeste' means "heavenly" in French. The celesta was invented in 1886. This short article about music can be made longer. You can help...

Phillippe's is famous for inventing the French dip sandwich (though another restaurant called Cole's claims to have invented it, too). It has been in business...

computer bus for connecting integrated circuits and processors. It was invented in 1982 by Philips Semiconductor (which is now NXP Semiconductors). This...

April 1826, Amay – 20 January 1901) was a Belgian electrical engineer. He invented the Gramme machine. The Gramme machine was a type of direct current dynamo...

also special films which can record infrared light. Photographic film was invented in the 1880s and replaced the earlier dry plate system. Films also come...

The Winchester Model 1887 is a lever-action shotgun invented by John Browning. It was one of the first successful repeating shotguns. When the repeating...

work of James Hargreaves, who invented the Spinning jenny, and Richard Arkwright who invented the spinning frame he invented the spinning mule, a machine...

picture using visible light for people to see. Electron microscopes were invented in Germany in the 1930s. A beam of electrons is sent towards the specimen...

international standard. One of his good friends Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the Fahrenheit scale for the thermometer. This short article about a person or...

Flintstones franchise. He is an everyday caveman and caring father. He was invented by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera of Hanna-Barbera. His famous catchphrase...

classical Indian literature Kalinga script, an ancient writing system invented in the ancient Kingdom of Kalinga Kalinga architecture Kalinga (caste)...

of Commons, Lord Chancellor and advisor to the King Henry VIII. He also invented the word "utopia", which means: "an ideal place to live". This is described...

mechanical loom. It is used to make patterns in clothing material. It was invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard, and first used in 1801. It simplified the process...

and again in the 1900 United States Census . To make his system work, he invented the first automatic card-feed mechanism and the first keypunch (that is...

chemist. He improved the bunsen burner which now has his name. It was invented by Michael Faraday. Much more important was the work he did which led to...

Middle-earth is a fictional fantasy world invented by J. R. R. Tolkien. Several of his books take place there, such as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings...

1944). August 19 – Orville Wright of the Wright brothers, Americans who invented the airplane. August 29 – Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950) September...

also be used to tell time, and is pocket sized. The first almanac was invented in 1457. This short article can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia...

A Tesla coil is an electrical machine invented by Nikola Tesla in 1891. It is a radio-frequency oscillator and resonant transformer that generates high...

the age of twenty-four. In 1841, Sax moved to Paris. Around this time he invented the saxophone. He got a job teaching at the Paris Conservatoire starting...

Naglfari is in the Norse mythology the first husband of Nótt and a father of Auðr. It seems that he was invented by Snorri Sturluson....

made of meat on a stick with onion and gravy along with it. The dish was invented by Javanese street vendors. "Jakarta Street Food Scene: Truly Indonesia"...

technical design, and power supplies. While he was working at CERN, he invented the idea of stochastic cooling, which led to the discovery of W and Z bosons...

They work after other rockets bring them to outer space. The Chinese invented the rocket using gunpowder. The first rockets were shaped like arrows and...

comfortable and respects the other equally. Originally, Sigmund Freud invented the word "pansexual", regarding the hypothesis "that regards all desire...

law firm. He learned to draw diagrams. While at the law firm, Latimer invented an improved railroad car bathroom and an early air conditioning unit. Later...

authority, status, alienation and lack of power. The word "sociology" was invented by French thinker Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès in 1780. Early thinkers who wrote...

phenotype, as follows: genotype + environment → phenotype The terms were invented by Wilhelm Johanssen to distinguish between inherited and environmentally...

invented people usually wrote with pens which were dipped into ink, or fountain pens which were filled with ink. When the ballpoint pen was invented,...

Then a new kind of vinyl record with less noise and better sound was invented. Manufacturers began to call their equipment and records "high fidelity"...

play difficult music with lots of sharps and flats. Clarinets were not invented until the late 18th century, but even they have developed a lot since Mozart’s...

barrier discharge, which is also known as plasma discharge. Nikola Tesla invented it to study the properties of plasma, in 1892. He obtained a patent in...

best known as the discoverer of logarithms and Napier's constant. He also invented the so-called "Napier's bones" and made common the use of the decimal point...

bullets. It was the main bullet used by NATO until the 5.56×45mm NATO was invented. Guns that use the 7.62 NATO include the M14, the FN FAL, the G3, the SCAR...

a street food. Berlin legend says that Herta Heuwer, from Königsberg, invented the currywurst sauce by experimenting at her stall in Berlin-Charlottenburg...

This is disputed by author Jo Monroe, who claims that this story was invented by the founder of a London restaurant "to entertain journalists". The oldest...

He invented several languages to use in his Middle-earth writings. Aside from the external history, most of his languages have also an invented "internal...

The terms "crown group" and "stem group" were invented by R.P.S. Jefferies in 1979. Though invented in the 1970s, the term was not often used until...

directions, according to the Lorentz force law. The cloud chamber was invented by Charles Wilson (1869–1959), a Scottish physicist who received the Nobel...

breaking codes for many centuries. In the 1930s specialized machines were invented to do the calculations. Code-breaking machines such as the Colossus computer...

subcontinent for many centuries. Sitar is traditionally said to have been invented by the Sufi singer Amir Khosrow. "Central Asia and Iran". 2008-05-20. Archived...

who invented the Baudot code. The baud is different from the gross bit rate, measured in bits per second. Various electric signal schemes invented in the...

University in 1936. Bardeen worked with William Shockley and Walter Brattain to invent the transistor on 23 December 1947. They shared the Nobel Prize in Physics...

barbers. In the late 18th century, French engineer Jean-Jacques Perret invented the safety razor. With this system, the skin is protected, from all but...

music. It has electronic/funk influenced (affected) sounds. Post-disco was invented by DJs and music producers in USA and the UK. Post-disco music is similar...

Walter Scott, who wrote many historical stories. Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone, was born in Edinburgh. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who wrote...

Max Keith was a German businessman who invented Fanta during World War II in Germany. When he was 30 years old, he worked at a German subsidiary of Coca-Cola...

language that can be used for any kind of task. One example is BASIC, invented by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz in 1963. The opposite of a general-purpose...

safety lamp was invented by William Reid Clanny. It used bellows and water to separate gasses. Later, two newer designs were invented. One newer design...

inventor in the Biedermeier period. He was born and died in Karlsruhe. Drais invented the Laufmaschine ("running machine"). This short article about a person or...

places. It was invented by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer in 1981 at IBM, in Zürich. In 1986 they won the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing it. The STM...

unit of power, the watt, is named after him. It replaced the horsepower invented by Watt. James Watt was born on 19 January 1736 in Greenock, Renfrewshire...

is also called Avogadro's number, which was named after the person who invented it. Anything can be measured in moles, but it is not practical for most...

gauge", is the standard gauge for most of the world's railways. He also invented a miner's safety lamp, which was widely used in the north of England. Rail...

across the world, as gunpowder was invented, along with the cannon. It spread across eurasia, after being invented in China in the third century. (200AD)...

first vaccine for smallpox used the results of cowpox infections. It was invented by Edward Jenner. It was used to stop people from getting smallpox. The...

organisms. The classification has its root in the work of Aristotle who invented a multi-ranked system. A great influence was Carolus Linnaeus, who popularized...

houses' also use models to show off their dresses to clients. This idea was invented by Charles Worth. Photographers use models for advertising and for portfolio...

Lateral thinking is a term invented by Edward de Bono, a Maltese psychologist, physician and writer. It first appeared in the title of his book The Use...

people see Franklin as one of history's greatest inventors. For example, he invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, and the glass harmonica...

plans and capabilities. These interviews are often called interrogation. "Inventing The Interview | AMERICAN HERITAGE". www.americanheritage.com. Retrieved...

wheels and electricity. It is an electric version of a pipe organ that was invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert. It was first built in 1935. Sliding...

learn about the details of the human body. Simple microscopes were first invented in the 17th century, and the compound microscope (still used today) became...

they are just passing by and not taking any resources. These zones were invented in the middle 20th century. Cod wars US Department of Commerce, National...

When the waltz became popular in the 19th century, Colombian musicians invented a version called pasillo. This short article about music can be made longer...

3, PlayStation 4 and now the PlayStation 5. They also sold the Walkman invented by Andreas Pavel - a small music audio cassette player that could fit in...

(or first harmonic) and the second harmonic. Interharmonics is a term invented, or at least standardised, by the international electronics industry about...

formulae. Prefix notation is also known as Polish notation. The notation was invented by Jan Łukasiewicz in 1920. He wanted to simplify writing logic equations...

of 93. "Mary Lee Berners-Lee: Pioneering computer programmer whose son invented the world wide web", The Times, p. 77, 20 January 2018 "Scientific pioneers...

Sequoyah was a Cherokee man. He invented a syllabary (alphabet based on syllables) for his people. Before that, they did not have an alphabet for their...

the objects on it. What if gravity went to the moon and beyond? Newton invented a formula for calculating the force of attraction between two bodies. He...

double life. The word alter ego was first used in the 19th century. It was invented by psychologists when discussing dissociative identity disorder. The Strange...

of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. The Molotov cocktail, which was invented by Finns fighting in the Winter War against the Soviet invasion of Finland...

tools were bought, sold, or traded across larger distances. Writing was invented around the beginning of the Bronze Age in some areas. People soon began...

his Guru (Guru Nanak,the first guru in Sikh religion). Guru Angad Dev invented the present form of the Gurmukhi script. This short article about a person or...

They could farm their fields better and grow more crops. Some people invented coins to help buy and sell their crops and their iron tools. Bronze weapons...

vending machine came about during 1st century AD in Roman Egypt and was invented by the Greek mathematician and engineer, Hero of Alexandria. It dispensed...

story. Recitative is used in opera, oratorio and cantatas. When opera was invented around 1600 the composers needed to tell the story in music. In recitative...

LPs, Eno left for a solo career, releasing briny albums of art-pop and inventing ambient music. This short article about a person or group of people can...

sensed and magnified onto a screen. Scanning tunneling microscopes were invented in 1984. A fluorescence microscope is a special kind of light microscope...

glass harmonica (also called the armonica) is a musical instrument. It was invented by Benjamin Franklin. It is made up of a spinning stick with glass bowls...

of writing things. It is named after Louis Braille, the French man who invented it. The system is used by blind people to read and write. The Braille system...

created in 1962 by American Newman Darby. Independently, engineer Jim Drake invented and co-patented the version we all know today and called it Windsurfing-...

chordophone instruments from the Indian subcontinent. In Hindu belief, it was invented by the goddess Saraswati. This short article about music can be made longer...

trains and automobiles needed much better brakes, and many kinds were invented. Even some airplanes have brakes to slow them in the air. Railway brake...

beat so that the dancers could dance in time. This is why barlines were invented. The music was divided into bars with a particular number of beats in each...

expensive. A mechanical paper maker was conceived in France 1798, but invented in England. At least one paper mill was using them by 1812. Now the process...

found as a piece of paper or a small ball used in secret voting. It was invented in Italy around the 16th century. Each voter uses one ballot, and ballots...

Cecil Booth (4 July 1871 - 14 January 1955) was a British engineer. He invented the vacuum cleaner. He was born in Gloucester, England. He died in Croydon...

pizza's thickness gives space for lots of cheese and tomato sauce. It was invented in Chicago. This short article about food can be made longer. You can help...

kill microbiological organisms, called sterilization. The autoclave was invented by Charles Chamberland in 1879. This short article about technology can...

graduated from Oxford University. He was an Anglican clergyman and in 1785 he invented the power loom. Frank Kidner; et al. Making Europe: The Story of the West...

fibres come from animals. In the 20th century many artificial fibres were invented like nylon and polyester. They are very important in the structure of plants...

into battle or drop them as paratroopers. Eight years after aircraft were invented by the Wright brothers they were used in combat. Planes were mostly used...

plants. However, in principle, it can be used for many other tasks, such as fault-finding in complex machinery. Dichotomous keys were invented in 1778....

Writing is one of the greatest inventions of the human species. It was invented after the Neolithic revolution in which people settled in small towns and...

Starley creates the first genuine bicycle, the Rover. John Boyd Dunlop invents the pneumatic tire. W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan's The Mikado The Times...

March 1819 – 15 March 1891) was a 19th-century English civil engineer. He invented the system for cleaning drinking water so as to eliminate cholera. As chief...

can supply more amps, or run for a longer time. The first battery was invented in 1800 by Alessandro Volta. Nowadays, his battery is called the voltaic...

be useful to readers. Michel de Montaigne, a 16th century philosopher invented the essay. argument led approach. An argumentative essay is a critical...

the world. It is played in the Winter Olympic Games. The modern game was invented in the mid-1850´s by British soldiers based in Canada. Rules were set by...

stone"), and Neolithic ("new stone"). During the Neolithic period, people invented farming and pottery, and started to care for animals like cows and pigs...

crust is thick and crispy only on the edge, yet soft and thin. It was invented in New York City. This short article about food can be made longer. You...

analyze the finance market. It is used to forecast market trends. It was invented by Ralph Nelson Elliott. He thought that prices follow some patterns, which...

emerged during the 19th century. George M. Cohan is often credited as inventing the musical theatre in America in the early 20th century. Around 1850...

Georgian scholars like Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze have said that they were freely invented in imitation of the Greek model rather than directly based upon earlier...

Writing is one of the greatest inventions of the human species. It was invented after people settled in towns, and after agriculture started. Writing dates...

each other than their moderate counterparts. Philosopher Jean-Pierre Faye invented Horseshoe Theory after observation of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union's...

cluster. The Simple English Wiktionary has a definition for: devise. Devise could mean: To invent A disposition of real property in a will, like a bequest...

(rhythm): a Cuban or AfroCuban musical rhythm and its associated dance. Invented around 1950 in Havana. Mambo section: a musical bridge or section in some...

Alter created it one year before the much more popular Morse telegraph was invented. Alter demonstrated it publicly. In the United States, the telegraph was...

that produces light and heat by using atoms to release energy. It was invented by Charles Hard Townes in the 1950s. A maser takes the small vibrations...

living outside of it. In the middle of the 20th century, new drugs were invented that made it easier to treat mental illness. Governments began to look...

much older than modern ballroom dances. With the exception of the waltz, invented around 1800, all dances in ballrooms were sequence dances until the early...

large bird. Quills were used for writing with ink before other pens were invented. They are still used in calligraphy sometimes. Today, most paper is made...

Lsjbot is a controversial Wikipedia bot invented by Swedish physicist Sverker Johannson. It was originally invented for the Swedish Wikipedia, but later...

were often powered by hand. This is because boat engines had not been invented yet. They were almost always made for war. Submarines would try to sink...

carpets originated in Central Asia, but the idea of machine manufacture was invented in Europe. The oldest known carpet was found in the year of 1947 at excavations...

of the lute family. Lyres were among the first string instruments to be invented. People played them in various ancient cultures (including the Sumerian...

invented the first touchscreen that was used in the U.K for air traffic control up until around 1995. The first resistive touch screen was invented by...

a time. Typewriters were created in 1829. Typewriters were originally invented to make writing faster and printing. The earliest typing was done on stone...

greatest players in the history of football. Franz was often credited for inventing the role of the modern sweeper (libero). Beckenbauer died on 7 January...

The name diesel is given to an engine invented by a German named Rudolf Diesel in the late 19th century. It is one of the most used kinds of internal combustion...

uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its timekeeping element. It was invented in 1656 by Christiaan Huygens. From the year 1656 until the 1930s, the...

tells the story of a small inventor named Lewis, who is very smart and invents things but he does not have a family, even though he wants one. Then one...

The Observer. Retrieved 4 November 2008. "Chris Martin | Martin: 'Travis Invented Coldplay'". Contactmusic. 20 January 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2012. "The...

and lack of permanence. When the artificial pigment cerulean blue was invented people started using this instead. The first recorded use of cerulean as...

(GBP) Day pupil fees per term: 7,696 (GBP) The game of rugby football was invented at the school. The legend of William Webb Ellis and the origin of the game...

and three minor one's toward the different districts. The Bus verts invented by the Conseil général is a way to get to the surrounding communes (lines...

Dynamite is an explosive invented by Alfred Nobel, the creator of the Nobel Prize. Its main explosive component is nitroglycerin. Nitroglycerin is very...

interference (noise) but consume a lot of energy. Digital circuits were invented in the twentieth century and are the foundation for digital communications...

de Segura was a Spanish chess player, author, and priest who may have invented the Ruy Lopez chess opening. Hooper D. & Whyld K. 1984. The Oxford Companion...

Mandarin Chinese, or a way to write Mandarin in the Roman alphabet, that was invented in Taiwan. It was created by the Taiwanese to oppose Hanyu Pinyin, which...

and ducere, to lead. The ancient Romans did not use this word; it was invented in the nineteenth-century by analogy with aqueduct. "Definition of VIADUCT"...

a common year starting on Monday in the Julian calendar. Thomas Edison invents the light bulb. Rutherford B. Hayes State of the Union Address. The Anglo-Zulu...

gains something, so they try to keep doing the same thing. The term was invented in the United States. However, most countries have politicians and soldiers...

Solvay process is a way to make sodium carbonate and sodium dicarbonate invented by Ernest Solvay. It is essentially the reaction of carbon dioxide with...

Death Star is a fictional moon-sized space station and superweapon. It was invented for the Star Wars movies. It was a huge spherical space station which fired...

Bolton (June 23, 1886 – July 30, 1968), was a chemist and biologist who invented Neoprene. He died of pneumonia in 1968. This short article about a person from...

Copenhagen. In February 1927, while Bohr was on extended skiing holidays, he invented the uncertainty principle and published the paper “Über den anschaulichen...

combustion engine but the term often means the machine that Niklaus Otto invented. [source?] In this kind, fire makes pressure increase inside a cylinder...

Socrates. In Plato's dialogue Protagoras, he credits Protagoras with having invented the role of the professional sophist or teacher of virtue. It is thought...

eyeglasses or sunglasses with square or trapezoidal rims. The style was invented by Ray-Ban in 1956 and represented a refreshing break from the metal wire-rim...

made by running lines of stitching through the three layers. Quilts were invented as bedding, but some are works of art made to be hung on a wall (wall hangings)...

like bacteria. The method of growing Rickettsia in chicken embryos was invented by Ernest William Goodpasture and his colleagues at Vanderbilt University...

one improve luck. Feng Shui means "wind and water" in Chinese. It was invented by the Taoists. Feng Shui has "five elements", they are: Fire, Earth, Metal...

beverage was pushed out of a container in France. In 1837, the syphon was invented. In 1862, several experiments with liquid spraying using compressed gas...

computers. Then they publish this information for people to use. MPEG invented a number of file formats for music and video. MP3 and AAC, which are two...

southern Sierra Nevada, California Toyota Sequoia, a sport utility vehicle Sequoyah (1767–1843), a Native American man who invented the Cherokee syllabary...

adopted them, and they began to spread quite quickly. Before guns were invented, swords were much more common as a weapon. After the invention of the gun...

Both of the player's hands are free to play the keyboard. This type was invented in 1842 by Alexandre Debain of Paris, although similar instruments have...

appeared in the same year. Many historians believe that Black Sabbath invented heavy metal music in the late 1960s. The band played loud, hard rock music...

separate stairways, often outside the building. The first fire escape was invented in England by Daniel Maseres, in 1784. Such installations are most common...

Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430–1516) Venetian painter Vincenzo Bellini, 19th century Italian composer Bellini (cocktail), a popular drink invented in Venice...

by Naismith and basketball, in 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Morgan invented "Mintonette" a less hard team sport than a basketball which was more suitable...

guitar. In the 20th century, a musician in United States, Leo Fender, invented the electric guitar. The guitar and the ukulele are similar in shape and...

Latoreria and Amastris; according to legend, the Amazons were the ones who invented the cavalry. Herodotus Book 4: Melpomene THE AMAZONS IN GREEK LEGEND Siculus'...

International Space Station measures −6. The Greek astronomer Hipparchus first invented our system of apparent magnitude. He gave the brightest stars a magnitude...

string for tyres, carpets, fishing nets and cloth and socks. Nylon was invented by Wallace Carothers at Du-Pont. There are many different types of nylon...

word catillus ("deep pan or dish for cooking"). The electric kettle was invented in 1891 In the past, kettles were made of metal bins like copper. Kettles...

the 1830s. The first motor-powered buses were made in 1895 in Germany, invented by Karl Benz. There are many types of bus. For example: a single decker...

joined together by adding a subordinating conjunction. Charlie Waldron invented the complex sentence. Dylan Mahoney made the 2nd most famous complex sentence...

their target even if they were not aimed straight at them. Rockets were invented by the Chinese after they discovered gun powder. In World War II, rocket...

They invented the harpoon, which was used to hunt seals and whales. They built boats from wood or bone covered with animal skins. They invented the kayak...

telegraphy, used mainly by ships at sea. He is sometimes said to have invented radio. Later inventors learned to transmit voices, which led to broadcasting...

He was the inventor the microwave oven. Spencer was born in Maine. He invented the microwave by accident when a chocolate bar his pocket melted when he...

ISBN 0-394-72107-1. Bennun, David (13 February 2017). "How Fleetwood Mac Invented Goth". The Quietus. Archived from the original on 20 February 2017. Retrieved...

novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Tetch used to be a scientist who invented mind-control things before being fired. He dresses-up as the Mad Hatter...

Hobbits are a fictional race in the Middle-earth world invented by J. R. R. Tolkien, also often called halflings. They appeared in the books The Hobbit...

and cycles and cycle paths are named after William Rowan Hamilton who invented the Icosian game. This game is also known as Hamilton's puzzle. It involves...

were unknown, because germs are too small to see. When the microscope was invented, people discovered what germs were and came up with the germ theory. Eventually...

from the Slavic word robota. Robota means labor, or work. Karel Čapek invented the word robot to use in a play. This play was called R.U.R. (Rossum's...

game meat. Chasseur is thought to have been invented by Philippe de Mornay, who is also said to have invented Mornay sauce, Béchamel, sauce Lyonnaise and...

1916 – September 27, 2007) was an American chemist and professor. He invented the antihistamine diphenhydramine (Benadryl), which he first made when...

to sleep. When she woke up, Hermes had crawled away to Thessaly and had invented the lyre and stole some of Apollo's cattle. Maia also looked after Arkas...

Harry Potter style Simon game was released in 2001. The game Simon Swipe invented by long time inventor Dan Klitsner was released in 2014 and was copyrighted...

Moulton (/ˈmoʊltən/) was an American psychologist and comic book writer. He invented an early version of the lie detector. He was also known as a self-help...

about, even though he was active almost 100 years before the phrase was invented. A serial killer's crimes are nearly always alike in some way or another...

an even larger sailing boat which were used before steam engines were invented. These were used for carrying cargo from port to port in days gone by....

Wilhelm Johannsen (3 February 1857 – 11 November 1927) invented the term "gene". He was a Danish pharmacist, botanist, plant physiologist, and geneticist...

days, it was just the way it was written. Key signatures had not yet been invented. Sharps and flats were sometimes shown by accidentals (written in front...

Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. John Shore invents the tuning fork. Alexander Pope publishes An Essay on Criticism. April...

allowed ASCII characters. Smilies are considered ASCII art. ASCII art was invented because in the past, computers could only display simple characters in...

A lava lamp is a decorative lamp, invented in 1963 by British entrepreneur Edward Craven Walker, who made the lighting company Mathmos. The lamp usually...

of the 19th century, and the 3rd year of the 1870s decade. Levi Strauss invents jeans. American department store Montgomery Ward opens for business. Huntington's...

mercury thermometers. In the 19th century, a mechanical thermometer was invented that used a bimetallic strip to move a pointer. This type of thermometer...

comedy. The play was written in 1599 or early 1600. Shakespeare rarely invented his own plays. He based his plays on stories by other writers. The story...

Japan Shikuchōson is a term which was made up in the Meiji period. In this invented word, each kanji represents one of the four types of municipalities. Jacobs...

designed to assist in summarizing information stored on punched cards. Invented by Herman Hollerith, the machine was developed to help process data for...

(Ghent , November 14, 1863 – February 23, 1944) was a Belgian chemist. He invented Velox photographic paper (1893). He also made Bakelite (1907), an inexpensive...

1st) Karl Gareis is murdered in Munich, Germany (June 9th) Insulin is invented in Canada by Frederick Banting and Charles Best (July 27th) Matthias Erzberger...

restaurants, the modern menu, with dishes in a set order of courses, was invented by the great French chef Escoffier. Usually there are two types of menu...

like it to the listener at first), so he had to find another way of giving his music shape. That is why he invented the twelve-tone system. Polytonality...

any type of personal watercraft used mainly for recreation. They were invented by Clayton Jacobson II. "Jet Ski". Cambridge English Dictionary. Archived...

economist and mathematician. He won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics. Hurwicz invented the economic sciences of incentive compatibility and mechanism design....

Emperor Leopold I becomes King of the Romans January 14 – The clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany May 20 – England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers...

5 million square kilometres (0.97 million square miles). Its name was invented in the Early Middle Ages from the Latin words Mare Mediterraneum meaning...

The Zipper is an amusement park ride that was invented by Joseph Brown as a part of Chance Rides, Inc.. More than 200 Zipper units since the ride's beginning...

battery or Leclanche cell is a primary cell (it cannot be recharged). It was invented by the French engineer George Leclanché around 1866. It used to be the...

Morse, who helped invent it. It is not used as much today as it was in the 19th and 20th centuries. Teletypewriters were invented in the early 20th century...

used for trade and communication. They got it from the Sumerians, who invented it. The Babylonians used the same cuneiform system of pressing triangular...

particular he found a revolutionary way to bind breading to chicken, and he co-invented the machine responsible for deboning chicken. He spent his entire academic...

the Slavic languages and translated the Scriptures into Slavonic. Cyril invented an alphabet called the Glagolitic alphabet. This became the basis for the...

most common types of cap. In slang, "cap" is also a word for lying. "Who Invented The Hat? - Amazing Hat History". Fashionable Hats. Retrieved 2020-11-17...

can be connected together with the Game Boy Link Cable. The Game Boy was invented by Gunpei Yokoi, who was also responsible for creating the unsuccessful...

named Marin Mersenne and contributed research on cones. Later, Pascal invented an early calculator to help his father (who was a tax collector) do calculations...

and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution. He invented the spinning frame. This was later called the water frame after the change...

important in the kingdom of Goryeo. Bronze-type printing technology was invented in Goryeo Dynasty. This is known as the world's oldest bronze-type printing...

sold to E. Remington and Sons during the same year. The QWERTY layout was invented by Christopher Sholes, the inventor of the first modern typewriter. At...

mentions that King Ningthou Kangba of Ancient Manipur (Antique Kangleipak), invented the game of Polo or Sagol Kangjei (Meitei: Sagol-horse; Kangjei- Kangba's...

Grindcore is a type of heavy metal and hardcore punk music. It was invented in the 1980s by bands such as Napalm Death. Grindcore is a lot like black metal...

turnbuckle and lands anywhere on the opponent's body. Harley Race accidentally invented the move. The move was popularized by The Dynamite Kid and later by Chris...

letter represents a different syllable sound. This special alphabet was invented by a Cherokee man named Sequoyah. Below is a chart of all the letters of...

important people in the history of American animation. He claimed to have invented the characters of Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny. Clampett was born...

There were major developments in computer technology. The World Wide Web (invented in 1989) became extremely popular and connected people around the world...

Perl is a programming language invented by Larry Wall to process text. The programming language has been changed many times to do some other things. Some...

stepbrother Ferb Fletcher are two children who spend their summer vacation inventing new machines and/or building large contraptions so that they and their...

Dynasts. Hardy set his novels in South West England, calling it 'Wessex'. He invented names for the towns, e.g. "Casterbridge" is Dorchester in Dorset. Hardy...

It is named after the Spanish priest Ruy López de Segura. He may have invented the opening. These are the opening moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 The...

way in 1882 by Frank Miller. After the invention in 1917, Gilbert Vernam invented and patented an electronic version based on teleprinter technologies. This...

nationalist, as well as a supporter and defender of apartheid, which was invented by the previous Prime Minister, Daniel Francois Malan. "Johannes Gerhardus...

Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts, invented an indoor game called basketball. He invented the sport to keep his students from becoming bored...

important early work on radioactivity, Studies in radioactivity, in 1912. He invented the X-ray spectrometer, and began work with his son. Together they founded...

religious beliefs” (J.Hendry, 1999). The anthropologist Lewis H. Morgan invented kinship studies. In the 1850s and 1860s he watched the Iroquois, a Native...

centuries ago but it has also been industrialized. Bookbinding machines were invented in the 19th century and most books are made in factories by mechanical...

sheep farmer in Australia. He is based on Dickens's own father. Dickens invented over 14 variations of the title for this work, see "Titles, Titling, and...

plans at present to send humans to Mars. The first telescope was probably invented in 1608 by Hans Lippershey. The Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 was...

Ada is a computer programming language. It was invented by Jean Ichbiah during the 1980s. It is very similar to the programming language Pascal. Ada offers...

Acts of Union took effect on 1 May 1707. Herman, Arthur. How the Scots Invented the Modern World. Three Rivers Press, 2001. ISBN 0-609-80999-7 Murdoch...

A Newtonian telescope is a type of telescope that was invented by the English scientist Sir Isaac Newton. The telescope sends an image to the back of the...

1655 – January 27, 1731) was an Italian musical instrument maker. He invented the piano. Cristofori was born in Padua. Not much is known about Cristofori's...

the primary cash crop, was losing value However, in 1794, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. The new invention helped to increase the profitability...

which is also the root of the word ingenious. Most mechanical devices invented during the industrial revolution were described as engines—the steam engine...

on May 11, 2008. Retrieved June 12, 2017. "Hallmark Cards – Joyce Hall Invented Hallmark Cards". Inventors.about.com. Retrieved November 19, 2016.[permanent...

Lars Petrus (1960 - Present) is a Sweedish Speedcuber. He invented the Petrus method of solving the Rubik's Cube. He became the Swedish national champion...

duplicate whist system. The basic movement was invented by John T. Mitchell, a Scot who moved to the U.S. He invented the boards which hold the cards, and the...

Germany. He was the oldest son of the company's founder Hans Riegel Sr., who invented the gummy bear in 1922. He studied at the University of Bonn. In 1945,...

was the creation of the sewage system in London. In 1829 photography was invented. Gas lighting was important too. Streetlights became common first, followed...

was an Austrian neurologist (a person who treats the nervous system). He invented the treatment of mental illness and neurosis by means of psychoanalysis...

ice cream flavor. It is usually a red, blue, and yellow swirl. It was invented in the Midwestern United States in the early 20th century, mainly Michigan...

romanized: Maleeyaapham Paalchaa Koomsing) is a traditional lunar calendar invented and used by the Meitei ethnicity for religious and agricultural purposes...

sore. Once people are done with gum, they throw it away. Chewing gum was invented at least 5000 years ago and in many places, made from many different plants...

rubbers based on polychloroprene (polymer form of Chloroprene). Neoprene was invented by DuPont scientists after Dr. Elmer K. Bolton of DuPont attended a lecture...

Turbofolk or Pop-folk is a style of music from the Balkans that was invented in the early 1990s. It mostly comes from Greece, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina...

one edge that make it "sticky," so you can stick it to things. It was invented by Arthur Fry. The most common sticky note is the Post-it, which is made...

A Panzerfaust is a recoilless rifle that was invented by Germany. A Panzerfaust can only be used once unlike the Panzerschreck or the Bazooka. The Panzerfaust...

typewriters and with ink. It was originally called Mistake Out and was invented by Bette Nesmith Graham in 1951, who was working at a bank in the U.S....

Americans. The original idea was born in 1965 through Sherman Poppen. He invented the ‘’snurfer ‘’, which was made of two skis fixed together, as a gift...

of natural numbers (there are aleph null natural numbers). Georg Cantor invented and named the concept. The symbol for aleph null is ℵ 0 {\displaystyle...

a song about a Rubber Ducky in Sesame Street. Rubber ducks were first invented in the 17th century, and is referenced and loved a lot by many for it's...

over 5000 years ago. A variety of writing systems were invented, long before paper was invented. Clay, papyrus, wood, slate and parchment (prepared animal...

floorball is disputed, with Sweden, Canada, and the USA all claiming to have invented the sport. Regardless, floorball has been most popular in Sweden since...

flavour and texture which do not survive heating. Camembert was reputedly invented in 1791 by Marie Harel, a farmer from Normandy. However, the origin of...

Hoffmann (21 January 1868 – 8 February 1946) was a German chemist who invented aspirin. Felix Hoffmann was born on 21 January 1868 in Ludwigsburg, Germany...

has shown that the idea of three races was wrong. German anthropologists invented the name Mongolian race in the 18th century. Later, the name changed to...

traditional way uses a mailer, as is usual with smartphones. Microsoft invented its own "communication protocol" (or set of rules) for sending and receiving...

long coats made from stiff material, like heavy-duty cotton. They were invented for soldiers to wear in The First World War to keep them warm. Most trench...

Macadam is a type of road making. It was invented by the Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam, about 1820. He put crushed stone in shallow, convex layers...

decided to reinstate Karate for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Karate was invented in the 14th century. Karate uses all parts of the human body as a weapon...

W. Snyder (1780-1841) was an American watchmaker and inventor. Snyder invented the fishing reel in the 1820s. "George Reynolds Snyder, Sr". Find A Grave...

first comprehensive star catalog of the western world. He might also have invented the astrolabe, and the armillary sphere which first appeared during his...

from the 18th century to the early 19th century. The first fortepiano was invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori in Florence. The idea soon spread in Europe. Ripin...

battery. The creation of voltmeters became possible when Hans Oersted invented the most simple voltmeter in 1819. The voltmeter can be connected by joining...

is the part of the Internet that contains websites and webpages. It was invented in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. Sir Tim Berners-Lee...

Մեսրոբ Մաշտոց, 360 - February 17, 440) was an Armenian Christian monk. He invented the Armenian alphabet in the year 406. He was a theologian and linguist...

this type of ice cream is eaten during summer. In 400 BC, the Persians invented a special type of ice cream reserved to the royalty during summers. This...

Brearley (18 February 1871 – 14 July 1948) was an English metallurgist who invented stainless steel, that is, steel which does not rust. Brearley was born...

called conversion and the reactor a converter. The first converter was invented by Sir Henry Bessemer in 1856. He built a pear-shaped large vessel with...

wired. [email protected] (2015-11-18). "The History of the Doorbell: Who Invented It? Find Out!". 1800doorbell. Retrieved 2022-12-31. Media related to Doorbell...

enough. The reason this is called "duck typing" is the duck test. It was invented by James Whitcomb Riley: When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims...

not come before decks having four suits of the same length. They were invented not for occult purposes but purely for gaming. In 1781, Court de Gébelin...

choreographer Pierre Beauchamp. Also during this time, the playwright Molière invented the comedie-ballet. In the early 19th century ballet technique was codified...